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1o.&" United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 01r1 ..w.r .> 'U V 13 Cabe - Pratt - Harris House Section number 8 Page 4 Orange Co., NC 8. Statement of Significance: Summary: The Cabe - Pratt- Harris Mouse is significant under National Register Criterion C. It- embodies the distinctive characteristics of late- Georgian design and is notable as an example of a small but substantial early- nineteenth century farm house of the Eno River valley. The house was probably built in the 1820s by Jamima Cabe and her husband, Jehu Brown. She inherited this tract of land after her father William Cabe's death in 1828. William Cabe was the son of Barnaby Cabe, an early land grantee in the area. The house and farm were later owned by the Pratt and Harris families. Although mid - twentieth century additions (remodeled in the late - twentieth century; expanded the house, the old section retains its early form, and its handsome late - Georgian hall- and - parlor interiors. The interior, unusually sophisticated for a small rural dwelling of the period, retains its flush board sheathing, six -panel doors, and arched and raised -panel mantels. Historical Background: The Cabe- Pratt - Harris House, or Riverbend Farm, stands on a tract which dates to the mid - eighteenth century. The farm began as several hundred acres, but has been partitioned over the years, and at present contains approximately twenty -seven acres. No original farm outbuildings survive. The early barns, and livestock pens were replaced with a c.1950 cinder block barn and fenced pens for the current owner's hunting dogs. The land is first associated with the McCabe (shortened to Cabe at an early date) and Few families who were among the earliest settlers in the Eno River Valley. The farm stayed in the Cabe family until the mid- nineteenth century and has had two owners in the twentieth century. Much of the historical data about the Cabe family, and other early Eno River Valley settlers, was compiled by Hugh Conway Browning (1896 - 1983), a family descendant. His meticulous genealogical research revealed facts of births, marriages and deaths and the tight web of kinship among the area's early families, and the tangle of land transactions that were a part of their fortunes. The McCabe family originated in Scotland and joined Protestant families who migrated to Ireland in the seventeenth century, and thence to America before the Revolutionary War.